Privacy

Brave now uses its own search engine by default in five countries. It replaces Google in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Qwant in France and DuckDuckGo in GermanyBrave Search will come to more countries as the default…

Web retailer Amazon has lodged an objection to the fine of 746 million euros it received earlier this year from a Luxembourg regulator. Supervisor CNPD imposed the fine for violations of the European GDPR privacy directive.Amazon has…

VMware has released version 12.2 of Fusion. Fusion is to macOS what Workstation Pro and Workstation Player are to Windows and Linux. The program makes it possible to create virtual machines on an Intel processor equipped macOS machine.…

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh state that the Android versions of Huawei, Samsung, Realme, Xiaomi and LineageOS collect unsolicited data from users. The data is shared with Google, Microsoft and Facebook, who have system…

The Irish data regulator wants to fine Facebook 36 million euros. That is much lower than most European privacy regulators want. The DPC states that users voluntarily provide data to Facebook and the fine is therefore low.This is…

For its 25th anniversary, The Internet Archive has created a Wayforward Machine. This satirical spin-off of the Wayback Machine says it shows what websites will look like in 25 years, if users do not sufficiently protect the free…

Mozilla introduces Firefox Suggest in browser versions 92 and 93. This search feature will show sponsored and suggested results in the search bar of US Firefox users. It is not yet known when and whether the feature will also come to the…

The European Parliament wants a total ban on facial recognition in public spaces. A majority of parliamentarians have voted in favor of a resolution advising that artificial intelligence surveillance technology should be banned in…

More than 14,000 sensitive data were stolen during the data breach that hit Arnhem-Nijmegen at the beginning of September. It mainly concerns old passwords, of which more than 4000 were unencrypted on a server. This is apparent from the…

Apple lets users report individual apps as scams through the App Store interface. That was also possible years ago, but the button disappeared from the interface. It has returned in iOS 15.The button to report an app is under Licenses…